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2014/01/252014/01/26

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/25

Back to relatively normal volume, this week.

FreeBSD 10 is out.
OpenBSD got electrical funding, and is now holding a funding drive.
new openssh key format and bcrypt pbkdf. A new key format for OpenSSH, and how to switch to it – only available in OpenBSD as of this writing.
I did not know this: There’s a pfSense store, with shirts, preloaded USB sticks, and various appliances – I have one of the Netgate FW-7541 models, notable in that I’ve never had to do anything with it after initial setup; it just runs and runs. There’s a pfSense hangout/webcast for paid support customers this Friday the 24th, too.
Open Source FreeBSD 10 Takes on Virtualization. From a saved Google search.
Undeadly has an explanation of the new signed packages setup for OpenBSD.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/01/14 roundup.
FreeBSD now has OpenSSL 1.0.1f.
NetBSD now has a wscons/Intel GMA driver.
PC-BSD 10 is almost out, and here’s their weekly digest talking about it. Also, apparently PC-BSd and GhostBSD share some installer code? I’m not clear on this.
CBSD – FreeBSD jail management. (via)
Slides and audio from Brian Callahan’s recent OpenBSD presentation at NYCBUG are up.
OpenBSD has a qla(4) driver, for Qlogic fiber channel HBAs, and ubcmtp(4), a Macbook touchpad driver.

2014/01/182014/01/18

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/18

I didn’t even need to find source links this week.

Do you have a VAX laying around? Cool! Now, can you give/lend it to OpenBSD?
Along those lines, anyone have a Cray they don’t need? I don’t care if it works. It has to be full-size, though. (via)
I found out that the RetroBSD site now lists hardware that runs RetroBSD. Here’s a video of something doing just that. There’s more of it on little teeny boards. Someone build this into a watch.
The DiscoverBSD roundup for 2014/01/14. DiscoverBSD also has a new writer, Nur Agus.
Complexity of FreeBSD VFS using ZFS as an example. Part 1. There’s a nice VFS explanation in there, too. (via)
Some OpenBSD videos from ruBSD.
Here’s a good explanation of OpenBSD’s new signify tool.
FreeBSD 10.0 is tagged.
PC-BSD 10 is also almost ready.
Unscrewed, a story linked in last week’s BSDNow presentation, in case you missed it.
Using Ansible to fix the recently-discovered NTP amplification attack – on BSD.
I assume he’s flying.

2014/01/152014/01/15

OpenBSD and electricity

The OpenBSD Project (Foundation?) needs to pay a large electrical bill for their hosting location. I had mentioned this in a weekend BSD report just before the end of 2013, but the problem is still there and deserves a special mention. It’s possible to contribute directly, or to the I-assume-nonprofit-so-tax-deductible-for-many-people OpenBSD Foundation. You can set up a low but reoccurring Paypal payment for the Foundation, which would be probably unnoticeable for you but very helpful for the organization.

Even if you aren’t booting OpenBSD on anything, you’re using a technology that came out of that project – OpenSSH, pf, your dhcpclient, etc; or using 3rd-party software that received fixes from OpenBSD work. Putting dollars towards this software development is one of the more effective things you can do with your money to help open source.

2014/01/112014/01/10

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/11

Running late putting this together… Back to bullets!

The weekly PC-BSD digest for January 3rd.
DiscoverBSD’s weekly roundup.
PC-BSD’s weekly digest.
Jailing FreeBSD 4 on FreeBSD 10. FreeBSD 4 has been a very long-lived release, so to speak.
OpenBSD has a new auto-install feature that needs to be tested.
Julio Merino has plans for his test suite on FreeBSD, and will be giving a tutorial on it at AsiaBSDCon 2014.
OpenBSD has a new ‘signify’ program for cryptographically signing and verifying files.
Ingo Schwarze has been implementing various optimizations for mandoc in OpenBSD. gprof helps.
FreeBSD has updated netmap.
python-3.2 is probably going to be removed from pkgsrc; it’s redundant to all the other versions.
FreeBSD’s gcc version is being made more compatible to clang by incorporating some Apple changes.

2014/01/08

NYCBUG meeting tonight with talk and tickets

For those of you near the NYC area, there’s a NYCBUG meeting tonight at 7 Eastern, with Brian Callahan giving a security-focused crash course in OpenBSD. Tickets for NYCBSDCon 2014, happening on February 8th, are going to be available there for the first time, starting at 6 PM. (and cheaper if you buy in person, too.)

2014/01/042014/01/04

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/04

Things are picking up again after the break.

Faces of FreeBSD: Isabell Long. Note that she came in via Google Code-In. That’s the value of those programs.
OpenBSD: Randomness, sooner.
OpenBSD’s change to PIE for i386 means special upgrade procedures – if you’re on i386. Also, here’s PIE. atexit(3) changes also changes the upgrade method this one time for… all platforms? I’m not sure.
The DiscoverBSD roundup for 12/31/2013.
The FreeBSD Test Suite. It’s similar to what NetBSD has, but see the source link for comments on what’s different. DragonFly has a test setup too, though I’ve never tried it – is there one for OpenBSD?
Pkgsrc-2013Q4 is branched.
FreeBSD has improved NFS performance.
NetBSD has updated libpcap, tcpdump, wpa, bind, and dhcpcd.
OpenBSD has updated xterm, glproto, and some other xenocara parts.

2013/12/282013/12/27

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/28

Again, quiet from the holiday break.

strlcpy/strlcat users, a rundown. The buffer overflow problem is suprisingly widespread. (via)
The PC-BSD Digest for 12/20 and for 12/27.
The DiscoverBSD weekly summary.
Faces of FreeBSD: Kevin Martin.
FreeNAS 9.2.0 is out. (via)
OpenSMTPD, a project I’ve always meant to look at more, has been updated.
BSD Magazine for December 2013 is out. The RSS feed for them/their newsletter is no longer working, cause I had to find out here.
ruBSD talks about OpenBSD are online.
There’s new support in NetBSD for that old Amiga.
You may need to update your OpenBSD packages.
NetBSD’s smbfs is now an import from FreeBSD.
NetBSD has updated ACPICA and OpenPAM.

2013/12/212013/12/20

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/21

Odds and ends for the quieter holidays.

Hubert Feyrer spotted this video interview of Amitai ‘schmonz’ Schlair about NetBSD.
OpenBSD has tmpfs.
PC-BSD has made it through a pkg upgrade.
pkgsrc is frozen until at least the end of the month, for pkgsrc-2013Q4.
OpenBSD wants to shift electrical costs. (via)
The DiscoverBSD weekly roundup.
Managing custom ports. (can apply to dports too)
Building tcsh on 4.3BSD-Quasijarus. This led me to…
4.5BSD. An ambitious project.
A pfSense video review.
Steryana Shopova is this past week’s Faces of FreeBSD.
OpenBSD had a head start on not trusting RNGs.
OpenBSD has a new vioscsi(4) driver.
Michael W. Lucas’s books are available through OpenBSD.
FreeBSD Kitten. (via NYCBUG)

2013/12/142013/12/13

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/14

Another week where I could get away without any commit links, just cause there’s so much BSD stuff out there.

Randomness changes in FreeBSD. Saw commits before, but this is a good summary. (via)
Cipher changes summary for OpenBSD.
The DiscoverBSD summary.
Faces of FreeBSD for this week: Brooks Davis.
PC-BSD’s weekly summary.
FuguIta, an OpenBSD liveCD.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s Semi-Annual Newsletter. There’s details on the FreeBSD Journal.
Also, that newsletter links this first of 4 BSD whitepapers.
The FreeBSD Challenge on linuxcauldron.com – a 30-day challenge.
BSDCan 2014 has issued a call for papers.
So has NYCBSDCon 2014. Here’s the announcement of NYCBSDCon 2014 itself, and flyer.
Note to self: investigate cheap bus trips to New York City.
The IP-Plug, a NetBSD-powered wall wart. The article goes into terrific detail.
Ruby in pkgsrc will be (apparently?) defaulting to version 2.0.
robotpkg, a specialized fork of pkgsrc that I didn’t know about.
PC-BSD is going through lots of changes to support pkg. (that’s one of many commits.)
FreeBSD has added newcons.

2013/12/092013/12/09

A BSD plan: license summaries

I had a sometimes-great, sometimes-difficult trip to New York City over the past few days, and while I was there, I met the ball of energy that is George Rosamond of NYCBUG (which is having a huge party right now.) He and I talked for a bit about various aspects of the BSD ecosystem, and one thing he noted was that people aren’t generally aware of all the licenses in use for the different software packages on the system, or even the individual licenses in the system files.

There is an ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES setting in pkgsrc, where software licensed under terms not in that list won’t install. That’s useful, but frustrating, because it keeps people from getting what they asked for – a software install. Something that would be useful – and it could be cross-BSD very easily – would be a license audit summary.

There’s meta-data on every package in FreeBSD’s ports and DragonFly’s dports and pkgsrc and OpenBSD’s port system. Why not say ‘pkg licenses’ in the same way you can say ‘pkg info’, and get a summary of the licenses you have installed in the system? (or pkg_licenses, etc. You get the idea) This wouldn’t prevent people from installing software, but it would give a very quick view of what you were using.

> pkg licenses

Software package License ---------------- ------- foo-2.2.26 Apache license bar-7.999999 Donateware baz_ware-20131209 MIT quux-silly-6.5 BSD

It could be extended to the base system, but I’d like to see this in all the packaging systems as a common idea, in the same way that ‘info’ in a packaging command always shows what’s installed.

2013/12/072013/12/04

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/07

Happy birthday to me!

Is Your Stack Protector Working? On Undeadly, so it’s OpenBSD.
ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH. (via)
The next PC-BSD 10.0 image is available.
Reid Linnemann is the latest in the Faces of FreeBSD series.
NetBSD has updated file.
FreeBSD’s iwn(4) driver has some updates (also in DragonFly).
FreeBSD now has casperd, for controlling access to out-of-sandbox capabilities.
FreeBSD’s oce(4) driver now supports 40Gb devices. (yay for manufacturer support)
FreeBSD has Hyper-V drivers.
OpenBSD’s ifconfig now shows the NWID, channel, and BSSID for IBSS networks.
OpenBSD has updated to pixman 0.32.4.
pkgsrc’s 2013Q4 freeze will start on the 16th.
How old is who? (Don’t tell me 900 years.)
There’s a broken builds list for pkgsrc-2013Q4 for anyone who wants to help.
Hacker News had a link to the FreeBSD version of the BSD Family Tree, which is not unique, but the comments led to some interesting links, like this story of an 8-year NetBSD uptime.
FreeBSDNews’s summary.
All the AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos. (Last week’s link was just OpenBSD ones.)
FreeBSD authentication against Samba 4 LDAP. I’m going to need this for the DragonFly machine I’m setting up in the same role at work… in my copious spare time.

2013/11/302013/11/29

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/30

A lighter week for commits probably because of the U.S. holiday, but still plenty of things to link.

Gabor Pali is this week’s ‘Faces of FreeBSD‘.
The DiscoverBSD weekly BSD summary.
There will be a FreeBSD Journal, though I see no mention on the Foundation site yet.
There’s a ruBSD conference on December 14th, in Moscow. Undeadly has a page about it, and there’s the translation, if you feel lucky.
BSDCan needs volunteers.
Because FreeBSD is using the pre-GPL3 version of GCC, Google’s patches for Android (since that environment is apparently avoiding GPL3 too) have been brought in.
FreeBSD has updated to svn 1.8.5.
OpenBSD has updated NSD to 4.0.
NetBSD has updated mpc. mpfr, and gmp.
NetBSD has moved from pppd to ppp.
FreeBSD is dropping 32-bit binary support, for reasons. But maybe not?
Is it time to dump Linux and move to BSD? Yes, of course.

2013/11/232013/11/24

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/23

I’m working my way up to more than just links to source for the cross-BSD news. There’s a lot to swim through!

NYCBSDCon 2014 (on February 8, 2014 – note the recent change) is, in addition to the normal call for papers, having a ‘call for exposés’, meaning they want people to expose BSD projects. I found this out through the undeadly.org description noting that some MIPS machines will be on display. This is an excellent idea; BSD projects need a showcase.
There’s also a NYC Tech Meta-party, with NYCBUG and many other groups participating.
FOSDEM 2014 will have a BSD Room.
FreeBSD developer and FreeBSD-based-business-owner Colin Percival gets a spotlight from the FreeBSD Foundation.
DiscoverBSD’s BSD summary. We need more of this.
FreeBSD News miscellaneous links. Hey, there’s more!
hostileadmin has a slew of wrap-up reports from vBSDCon. Sounds like a good time was had by all.
Here’s more vBSDCon wrapups, plus slides.
And a developer (John-Mark Gurney) trip to vBSDCon sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation.
Also, AsiaBSDCon OpenBSD presentations in video form.
The pfSense blog is called “The pfSense Digest”. Digest… hey, that sounds like a good, descriptive term! They also are looking to hire. I just used some of my paid pfSense support time on a work problem – well worth the money spent.
OK, back to source commit links.
FreeBSD has enabled some Texas Instruments hardware.
FreeBSD has added some example test framework programs.
FreeBSD has added the axge(4) driver for ASIX AX88178A and AX88179 USB Ethernet
adapters.
OpenBSD has 802.11A support in wpi(4).
(updated to add) There’s a PC-BSD weekly digest, too. That’s good, because I had trouble spotting things in the massive flood of PBI approvals over the past week.

2013/11/162013/11/15

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/16

Not as much pulled directly from the source lists this time, which is good.

It’s no surprise that I would say this, but: it makes me happy to see other BSD projects doing regular summaries, like this one or that one for PC-BSD or this general BSD summary.
A random PC-BSD review found via Google Search.
PC-BSD 10 test images are available. I wonder if that’s related to the eleventy-billion commits lately out of the PC-BSD Github account?
OpenBSD/CARP, Cisco, and schadenfreude.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s annual fundraising is on; they have already made it well along, but there’s still lots of dollars to go.
OpenBSD now has automatic disk mounting.
g4u 2.6 has entered beta. It’s “Ghost for Unix”, which gives you an idea of what it does.
EuroBSDCon 2013 DevSummit video recordings are up. I said there would be video all week, didn’t I?
Using OpenBSD with Vagrant and Veewee. Those tool names sound somewhat rude.
pbulk bulk builds for pkgsrc made easy. I was working on a script like this.
Cross–pollination makes me happy.
svn in FreeBSD is updated.
FreeBSD supports the MediaTek/Ralink RT5370/RT5372 chipset.
nvi still gets updates.
FreeBSD supports the (takes deep breath) Freescale Vybrid Family VF600 heterogeneous
ARM Cortex-A5/M4 SoC. (exhales)
FreeBSD has an IEEE Organizationally Unique Identifier. Not sure what it means.
NetBSD has a new game, hals_end. If you saw 2001 the movie, you may guess the contents.
OpenBSD has a new ugl driver for the Genesys Logic GL620USB-A
USB host-to-host link cable.

2013/11/13

OpenBSD talk at Michigan User Group

This appears to be all audiovisual media week, because author Michael W. Lucas gave a talk at the Michigan Users Group about OpenBSD (he’s qualified), and it’s up now in two parts. He describes it as:

“Among other things, I compare OpenBSD to Richard Stallman and physically assault an audience member.”

2013/11/122013/11/12

BSDTalk 234: Henning Brauer at vBSDCon

BSDTalk 234 is 30 minutes of conversation with Henning Brauer, taken at vBSDCon 2013. There’s a correlation between east coast BSD conferences and the number of BSDTalk episodes coming out.

2013/11/092013/11/08

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/09

Not sure why, but there wasn’t a lot of things this week to pick out.

A short discussion of Perfect Forward Secrecy on pkgsrc-users.
PC-BSD apparently (used to) play a movie on first boot.
FreeBSD now has a ‘mini-memstick‘ install option. (a later messages says ~200M in size.)
FreeBSD has updated aacraid.
OpenBSD supports the RTS5229 card reader in rtsx(4).
OpenBSD has updated OpenSSH, and NetBSD has updated. (DragonFly has a fix for the underlying problem.)
OpenBSD has FUSE support.